Timbers

'Or Grecians in these timbers lurk confined, / or 'tis some engine of assault, designed / to breach the walls, and lay our houses bare, / and storm the town. Some mischief lies behind. / Trust not the horse, ye Teucrians. Whatso'er / this means, I fear the Greeks, for all the gifts they bear.'

'And louder still, when towered the horse on high / with maple timbers, pealed the thunder through the sky.'

The ship creaked and groaned, the mighty timbers bulged and bent under the heavy blows, the water broke over the decks, snapping the mainmast like a reed.

Shiver me timbers!

They were on their way out into the taiga to cut wood and hew timbers under a guard of Cossacks.